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'''''Go West''''' is the 10th [[Marx Brothers]] comedy film, in which brothers [[Groucho Marx|Groucho]], [[Chico Marx|Chico]], and [[Harpo Marx|Harpo]] head to the [[American West]] and attempt to unite a couple by ensuring that a crooked railroad deal is thwarted. It was directed by [[Edward Buzzell]] and written by [[Irving Brecher]], who receives the original screenplay credit.
'''''Go West''''' (a.k.a. '''''The Marx Brothers Go West''''') is the 10th [[Marx Brothers]] comedy film, in which brothers [[Groucho Marx|Groucho]], [[Chico Marx|Chico]], and [[Harpo Marx|Harpo]] head to the [[American West]] and attempt to unite a couple by ensuring that an evil railroad baron is thwarted. It was directed by [[Edward Buzzell]] and written by [[Irving Brecher]], who receives the original screenplay credit.


==Plot==
==Plot==

Revision as of 06:59, 13 September 2015

Go West
Theatrical release poster.
Directed byEdward Buzzell
Written byIrving Brecher
Buster Keaton (uncredited)
Produced byJack Cummings
StarringGroucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Chico Marx
John Carroll
Diana Lewis
CinematographyLeonard Smith
Edited byBlanche Sewell
Music byGeorge Bassman
(orchestrations)
Georgie Stoll
(music direction)
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • December 6, 1940 (1940-12-06)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Go West (a.k.a. The Marx Brothers Go West) is the 10th Marx Brothers comedy film, in which brothers Groucho, Chico, and Harpo head to the American West and attempt to unite a couple by ensuring that an evil railroad baron is thwarted. It was directed by Edward Buzzell and written by Irving Brecher, who receives the original screenplay credit.

Plot

Confidence man S. Quentin Quale (Groucho) heads west to find his fortune. In the train station, he encounters crafty brothers Joseph (Chico) and Rusty Panello (Harpo) who manage to swindle his money. The Panello's are friends with an old miner named Dan Wilson (Tully Marshall) whose property, Dead Man's Gulch, has no gold. They loan him their last ten dollars for a grub stake and he gives them the deed to the Gulch as collateral. Unbeknownst to Wilson, the son of his longtime rival and beau to his granddaughter Eve Wilson (Diana Lewis), Terry Turner (John Carroll) has contacted the railway to arrange for them to build through the land, making the deed holder rich.

Cast

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Like most Marx Brothers films, comedy sequences alternated with light romantic scenes featuring two lovers. In Go West, the lovers are John Carroll and Diana Lewis.

Production

Like other Marx Brothers films, Go West has several musical numbers, including "As if I Didn't Know" and "You Can't Argue with Love" both by Bronislau Kaper and Gus Kahn, "Ridin' the Range" by Roger Edens and Gus Kahn, "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water" by Charles Wakefield Cadman and "The Woodpecker Song" by Harold Adamson and Eldo di Lazzaro. (In this song, Chico, playing the piano, rolls an orange on the keys in sync with the melody.)

Groucho was aged 49 during the filming of Go West, and his hairline had begun receding. As such, he took to wearing a toupee throughout the film, as he did the previous film, At the Circus.

Go West Screenwriter Irving Brecher impersonated an ailing Groucho when publicity stills for the film were first taken. Brecher bore a remarkable resemblance to Groucho and is all but unrecognizable in the photos, sporting Groucho's glasses, greasepaint mustache and eyebrows.

Musical numbers

External links

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